It has been eight months since the Palestinian rebel group Hamas attacked Israel. About 1,200 Israelis were killed instantly in the unexpected attack by Israel. More than 100 people were injured and died within days of the attack. In addition, Hamas was able to take more than 250 people hostage from Israeli territory.

The protesting students are demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, an end to US military aid to Israel, an end to the university's financial support from arms dealers and war profiteering companies, and the release of students arrested during the protests.

Enraged by the worst attack in history against them, Israel immediately launched an indiscriminate attack on Palestine. Because of this, 37 thousand 789 Palestinians have died in eight months. Most of those killed are women and children. It is reported that at least 78,000 were injured. During this period, thousands of structures were destroyed in Palestine and a large number of civilians were displaced. 

The ongoing tension in the West Asia region has reached America after eight months. American university students have staged protests against the ongoing Israeli invasion of Palestine. Such protests have been mentioned by the international media as a reflection of the war and the anti-apartheid movement in America in the past. The series of demonstrations against the Israeli invasion has increased significantly in recent days. Because of this dozens of universities have become stressed. 

The protesting students are demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, an end to US military aid to Israel, an end to the university's financial support from arms dealers and war profiteering companies, and the release of students arrested during the protest.

Since Israel launched its attack on Palestine in October, students at various US universities have started anti-war demonstrations. But as Israel's excesses escalated, students became more agitated. In the beginning, the students who had held rallies, hunger strikes, and hunger strikes have recently started to sit inside the campus by pitching tents. According to the BBC, students are protesting in 45 states and Washington. Students in more than 130 universities and colleges have set up temporary camps and started protesting. 

Northeastern region George Washington, Brown, Yale, Harvard, Emerson, New York, Georgetown, American, Maryland, John Hopkins, Tufts, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Temple, Northeastern, MAT, The New School, Rochester and University of Pittsburgh The performance is intense. Similarly, students have also protested at California State Polytechnic, Humboldt, University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Washington, Oregon. 

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Wisconsin, Northwestern, Washington (St. Louis), Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Ohio State, Minnesota, Columbia, Chicago and other midwestern universities, the BBC reported. The protests turned violent at Tulane, Emory, Vanderbilt, North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Kennes, Florida, Virginia Tech, Georgia, and the University of Texas (Austin), Texas (Dallas), Rice, and Arizona in the Southwest, according to the BBC. has done

The university, where the students protested, closed the regular classes and conducted teaching through virtual means. The University of Southern California has postponed the convocation ceremony itself. Local police and some university administrations have started to adopt strict policies against the protesters. Some universities, including Columbia, have suspended students participating in the demonstration. 

Some universities have started negotiations with students to end the demonstration, US media reported. Some others have given an ultimatum to stop the demonstration and called the police. According to the BBC, the administration and students of Northwestern and Rhode Island Brown University near Chicago have agreed to reduce the number of tents inside the university. There have been reports of clashes between protesting students and the police in some universities. Hundreds of students have also been arrested. AP has mentioned that at least 2,500 students were arrested, although the number of students arrested in the demonstration is not certain. 

According to the AP, on May 1 and 2 alone, hundreds of students were arrested at Yale, Dartmouth, Stony Brook, Portland, Wisconsin, and the University of Texas alone. Similarly, 210 students from California and 282 students from New York were detained. New York-based Columbia University set a deadline to remove temporary encampments built by students on campus. But since the camps were not removed at that time, the students have started to be suspended. 

University of Texas (Austin) has been removed by Texas police after students refused to remove the camp. The university claims that stones were found inside the tents and some of the protestors were found to be unrelated to the university. The student protest spread further after the police removed the camp set up by the protestors at Columbia University two weeks ago. But the pressure is increasing on the university leadership to take action or resign because of the attack on Jewish students and not being able to stop it. The university is at the center of an ongoing debate across the US about Jewish students being put at risk by anti-Semitism. 

Police removed a camp built by pro-Palestinian students in the middle of the campus on April 18 and arrested more than 100 students. But the students had yet another camp. Because of this, the university started online education. The university said that it has no plans to appeal to the police again and has also suspended the graduation program. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson said last week that university president Nemat Safiq should step down. "What is happening in Columbia is a disgrace," Johnson, the Republican leader, wrote in X. Likewise, the Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives also asked Columbia University's Board of Trustees, administrators and others to "take decisive action, remove the camps and ensure the safety of all students". 

Students living in tents at the University of Cambridge, UK. Photos: AFP/AP

Independent observers have described student protests against Israel as the biggest demonstrations of the 21st century. These demonstrations have been compared to the protests against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s. America has faced three major invasions this century. They are the protests against the US invasion of Iraq, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the anti-apartheid protests that arose after the killing of George Floyd, a young black man.  According to

news agency Reuters, protesting students have demanded a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, Palestine. In addition, they have called for an end to US military aid to Israel. The students are demanding that the university stop receiving financial support from arms dealers and war profiteering companies. Students demand that American educational institutions maintain financial distance from Israel. Similarly, they also demand that the students and teachers arrested by the police during the protest should be released unconditionally. 

US President Joe Biden has said that any American has the right to demonstrate. But he said that the law should be followed during the demonstration. "There is a right to freedom of expression and demonstration," Biden said about the demonstration by students in support of Palestine, "but the law must be respected." "Peaceful protest can be supported, but not violent protest," Biden said, "When violence happens, it goes beyond the scope of the law." He claims that the protestors do not understand what is happening in Palestine. 

Some people believe that the President's Office White House is in trouble regarding the student protest. Some analysts say the White House appears to be trying to strike a balance between the right to peaceful protest and the condemnation of hate speech. "This is a painful moment," White House Press Secretary Karin Jean Peer said, "free speech must remain within the bounds of the law." 

Similarly, former US President Donald Trump has also opposed the student movement. He termed the protesting students as 'angry madmen'. He claims that the protesting students were recruited by liberal groups. Some Jewish students claimed to have received hate speech and threats of violence from protesters. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, elected by the Republican Party from New York, has criticized Columbia's leadership for failing to address the concerns of Jewish students.